Greece Flashcards - HON Civics I

2025 study flashcards for Greece Unit for Civics I (FAMOUS PEOPLE)

Father of MEDICINE

Hippocrates

Father of HISTORY (Wrote about the Persian Wars)

Herodotus

Wrote the tragedies of Opedipus Rex and Antigone (THEARE QUESTION)

Sophocles (He’s like the Greece ver of like— Shakespere. And he wrote many old plays, mostly tragedies)

Former harsh lawmaker in Athens whos code was overturned by Solom

Draco

Student of Plato — tutored Alex the Great

Aristotle

Son of Philip II, Conquered Greece and ALL of Persia, spread HELLENISTIC culture.

Alexander the Great

Blind Prophet credited with created The Oddessy

Homer

Athenian statesmen who wanted to glorify Athens and expand direct democracy

Pericles

Student of Socrates. Wrote “The Republic” and opened the Academy in Athens

Plato

Sculpted parts of the Parthenon

Phidias

Overturned Draco’s Code and ended Slavery in Athens

Solon

Corrupted the youth

Socrates

Historian who wanted to accurately cover the Peloppensian War

Thucydides

3.14..

Archimedes

Pythagorean Theorem

Pythagoras